Privacy policy
This policy covers wardogstips.com only. It explains what happens to information when you read a page here, and what this site deliberately does not do. Last updated 2026-11-09.
Who runs this site
WARDOGS Tips is an independent, fan-made guide to the game WARDOGS. It is written and maintained by Jerry, and it is not affiliated with BULKHEAD or Team17. Questions about this policy go to contact@wardogstips.com.
What this site collects by itself
Nothing that identifies you. There are no accounts, no sign-up, no comments, no contact form and no newsletter, and this site sets no cookies of its own. Everything you read here is plain HTML and CSS. Cookies and identifiers on these pages come from the third parties described below: Google Analytics, the advertising network and Cloudflare.
Analytics
Google Analytics 4 loads only after you accept the cookie banner.
Until then no analytics script is requested and no Google cookie is set. After you
accept, Google sets first-party cookies in your browser (_ga and
_ga_<container>), keeps a random client identifier, and receives
the page address, the referring page, an approximate location derived from your IP
address, device and browser details, and interactions such as outbound link clicks.
This site uses two measurement IDs, G-S2N2PJM14N and
G-5W7PL2HPMP. It never sends a name or an email address, because it
never asks for one.
Your answer is kept in your own browser, in local storage under the key
cookies-ok: 1 means accepted, 0 means
declined. Declining sends nothing anywhere, and every page still reads the same. To
change the answer later, use Cookie settings at the bottom of any
page.
Google handles that data under its own policies:
Google privacy
policy and
how
Google uses data from sites that use its services. To stop the measurement,
block googletagmanager.com in your browser, use a content blocker, or
install the
Google Analytics
opt-out add-on. Reading the site does not depend on any of it.
Hosting and server logs
The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare receives the technical data a browser sends when it requests a page — IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, and the time of the request — in order to deliver pages and to block abuse such as bots and attacks. Cloudflare may set its own security and performance cookies at its edge, and it keeps its own logs under its own policy: Cloudflare privacy policy. This site does not receive or store those logs.
Advertising and affiliate links
Running this site costs money, and it is supported by third-party advertising and affiliate links. Both involve other companies, and both are worth understanding before you read on.
- Ads. The GearUP banner is an image served by the advertising network, so it is held back until you accept the cookie banner as well. Once it loads, the advertising network and its partners may set cookies or similar identifiers in your browser, and may collect your IP address, approximate location, device and browser details, and the pages you viewed, in order to measure and personalise advertising. Those companies act under their own privacy policies, not this one.
- Affiliate links. Some links to shops, such as Steam, are affiliate links. If you buy something after clicking one, the shop pays this site a commission. The price you pay does not change, and the commission never decides what a page says.
- Partners. When this site carries affiliate links, they are handled through CJ Affiliate (Commission Junction); its policy is at cj.com/legal/privacy. This list is updated when partners change.
Your choices
- Accept or decline analytics in the cookie banner, and change that answer at any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. Declining blocks the analytics script and the GearUP banner; the GAMIVO and YUPLAY links are plain links and are always shown.
- Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, and blocking them does not stop you reading any page here.
- In the EU and UK, you can manage advertising cookies across companies at Your Online Choices.
- For Google-served advertising, the ad settings and opt-out are described at Google's advertising page.
Other sites you reach from here
Pages link to Steam, Reddit and publisher sites. Once you follow a link, that site's own privacy policy applies, and this one no longer does.
Children
This is a game guide written for a general audience and it is not directed at children under 13. Because the site asks for no personal details and runs no accounts, it does not knowingly collect information from anyone, children included.
Your rights
This site holds no reader database: there are no accounts to close and no profile to export. Analytics data sits with Google, not here, and the opt-out above is how to stop it. If you have written to the contact address and want to know what happened to that message, ask and you will get an answer.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is posted on this page with a new date. The date at the top is the date of the current version.